the action or practice of making a hoax call to the emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address

he found out that he was a victim of swatting after police surrounded his home on Thursday

the officers realized they had been sent to the house as part of a swatting prank

hit or crush (something, especially an insect) with a sharp blow from a flat object

I swatted a mosquito that had landed on my wrist

she was swatting at a fly